There's been a lot of discussion about how Beijing are going to present this World Championship event - whether they'll be able to live up to the FISM standards, surpass them, or simply give us a week of Chinese cultural displays instead.

In 41 days FISM begins and 2,000 magicians from all over the world are going to find out! (And over 30 of them are from Australia!)

If you can't make it to FISM this time, we'll try to keep you informed with daily updates right here on this blog, so stay tuned!